Contrary Quote by Joseph Brodsky

I always say it is not the arrival; it is the journey.

— David Jason

In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.

— May Sarton

Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.

— R. S. Thomas

The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing.

— Paul Theroux

“Poetry, rather than being a phenomenology of the mind, is a phenomenology of the soul.”

— Gaston Bachelard

“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior,…

— Walt Whitman

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

— Mark Twain

“Poetry is a never ending journey.”

— Subrat Saurabh

“The poetry was all in the anticipation - there is none in the reality.”

— Mark Twain

Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.

— Marianne Moore

Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Where philosophy ends, poetry must commence. There should not be a common point of view, a natural manner of thinking which standsin contrast to…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel